The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-01-20
THURspAY. JANUARY 40, 1873;
MORE NEWSPAPERS

There is a good deal of talk every
now and again of starting new news
papers in Honolulu. While man or
a company has as much right 10 start a
newspaper as grocery store, still he or
it has at the same time all the right, title
and privilege of bearing the con-
sequences. 1t is what follows the start
ing that, it is to be feared, is not con-
sidered by the legion who are consumed
with the conviction that they could
operate a public journal to more adj
vantage and with better effect than
persons who have adopted journalism
as their life work. The aforesaid legion
may be perfectly right in the conviction
that, in the case of each Of them
The world is out Of JOINT;
o cursed spite,
That was born to put It right
Yet they may have to make several
trials before they discover the proper
channel in which to exercise their skill
for the cure Of the dislocated world |
They will invariably find themselves
consummately bsffled should they at
tempt to put in practice the delusive
idea, cherished by many in every
period since journalism became a
power on the earth, that they are able
to satisfactorily direct a newspaper
while relying on some other occupation
as their mainstay in life. Either the
newspaper or the other occupation will
fall behind in competition with cores
ponding interests in the hands of other
people who make them parts Of their
personal existence. The modern news
paper cannot be made side show: it
is a whole circus IN itself There is
no journalist either, who knows his
business, who will at any period of his
career drop into the fond assurance
that what he now understands OF his
vocation will serve him as capital for
all his future. "The world changes
and we change with it." someone has
said, and the statement applies with
great emphasis to the business of
journalism. What the journalist has
most of all to guard against Is allow.
ing himself and his methods to become
fossilized; or, to use term more ap-
propriate to anything related to print
ing, the journalist or his ways must not
become "stereotyped."
Admitting these general propositions,
that can be demonstrated if challenged,
1t may be asked: What chance has
the man who engages in journalism as
a pastime, or as a corollary to his life
employment, with view to using II
as the enginery for efecting reforms that
he considers are needed in the world
what chance has such man to keep
up with the changing conditions
that decide the success or failure
of journalism Just as the merchant
has to watch the constantly altering cir
cumstances of commerce; as the doctor
has to be ever in sympathy with adj
vancing medical science, and the law
yer to be everlastingly on the lookout fol
authorities new as well as old so the
journalist has not only to record cur
rent events, elucidate and discuss then
for the benefit Of his constituency; bu
ne has to be up with the most approx
ed methods as exemplified in the worl
of eminent and successful followers o
the business in the worlds centers an'
even in comparatively obscure localitie
for some of Americas most worth
journalism has been displayed in town